...pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. And I will give the men that have transgressed my...calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof, the princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people...

...uraki*, although I was im husband unto them, saith the LORD.) Jer, xxxiv, 18. And I will give the meu e D ! D ! D ! vll, 15. 18, 19. But he rebelled against him In sending his ambassadors Into Egypt, that they might...

...And I will give the men that have transgressed I my covenant, which have not performed the words oi Co., [etc., etc.] Etek. xvll, 15, 16, 19. But he rebelled against him In sending his ambassadors Into Egypt, that they...

...give the men that hare transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words ol the cove nant s, while he talked with us by tbe way, and while be...opened to us the scriptures? And they rose up the Ezek. xvll, 15, 18, 19. Bnt he rebelled against him In sending his ambassadors Into Egypt, that they...

...xxxiv. 18, God speaks of the 'men that had transgressed his covenant which they had made before him when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof.' See also Zech. ix. 11. Indeed all the Jewish sacrifices were regarded as a ratification of the covenant....

...that they would let their servants go free. To ratify this covenant, and make the obligation binding, they " cut the calf in twain and passed between the parts thereof." Every thing was calculated to make the occasion solemn and impressive. The convention was called by...

...fatted calf •was considered the choicest animal food, Gen. 18:7; Amos 6:4; Luke 15:28. In Jer. 34: 18, "they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof," there is an allusion to an ancieut mode of ratifying a covenant ; the parties thus signifying their...

...sanctioned. I said on a recent occasion that this custom is alluded to in Jer. xxxiv. J 8 — 20 : " I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant,...the parts thereof, I will even give them into the hand of their enemies." It is necessary to remember the same custom, when we read Gen. xv. give where...

...the significance is still apparent. In Jeremiah xxxiv. we have the same rite. Thus saith the Lord: I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant,...calf in twain and passed between the parts thereof, — the princes of Judah and the princes of Jerusalem, theeunuchs, and the priests, and all the people...

...calls it, because the matter of it was his command, and it had been ratified before him, as it follows, 'which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before * ' Liqnet quod apiul Israelitas fœdera partim epulis, partira sacrificas inita fuisse et aancita.'...